Share Well With Others » rv http://www.share5.org Compassion, Sacrifice, Passion, Teamwork, Leadership - Creating a Life That Reflects the Character of Christ Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:57:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Copyright © Share5.org 2010 chad@worldwins.org (Chad Houck) chad@worldwins.org (Chad Houck) 1440 http://www.share5.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/book-presale-ad2.jpg Share Well With Others http://www.share5.org 144 144 Creating a Life That Reflects the Character of Christ - Sharing Well With Others Compassion, Sacrifice, Passion, Teamwork, and Leadership - What would a life built around these character traits look like? What started as an experiment in October 2008 has become an indefinate road trip called the Share5 Tour as the Houck family of 5 travels the US and beyond in their 34 foot RV sharing Jesus and sharing well with others. Be sure to watch for the new book entitled Share Well With Others, releasing soon! Christian, Jesus, Share5, compassion, sacrifice, passion, teamwork, leadership Chad Houck Chad Houck chad@worldwins.org no clean Video Tour: Our 282 sq ft home http://www.share5.org/2009/01/video-tour-our-282-sq-ft-home/ http://www.share5.org/2009/01/video-tour-our-282-sq-ft-home/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:51:06 +0000 Chad Houck http://66.147.240.185/~sharefiv/2009/01/video-tour-our-282-sq-ft-home/ We call it the Big Ol' Bouncing 'Roo, and surely there could be alot of names for it, but whatever you call it, we call it HOME.  Its our 1993 Fleetwood Bounder 34' Class A motorhome that has been our residence since October of 2008.  Many of you have asked for the tour, so here it is, in VIDEO!  There are also a few photos on our Flickr account as well. 

Share5 RoadTrip RV Tour from Share5 by WorldWins on Vimeo.

Vital Statistics:
year:  1993
model:  34n
legnth:  34'
width: 8'4"
engine:  454 Chevy Gas
weight:  appx 16000 lbs
avg fuel efficiency:  8mpg
understorage compartments:  2 full passthrus, 5 partial compartments
ammenities:

  • 6 gal hot water heater
  • 80 gal fuel tank
  • 80 gal water t
  • 45 gal grey water tank
  • 50 gal black water tank (toilet, people!)
  • gas furnace
  • ac and dc lighting
  • full gas and electric refrigerator and freezer
  • queen bed in rear
  • dinette makes into full bed for kids to share

We've added:

  • 900 watt inverter (charge laptops when driving)
  • 32" visio LCD TV
  • Mac Mini w/ wireless keyboard and mouse
  • 2 macbook laptops
  • AT&T wifi access card
  • black bookshelf/tv stand
  • featherbed over the queen matress
  • 5000# rear airbag suspension
  • new heat riser bushings (exhaust)
  • New am/fm/mp3/cd player stereo
  • Garmin Nuvi 260 GPS!
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We got a crazy deal on this thing.  Its old.  It’s got retro colors on the outside.  It has over 100k miles on it.  But get this…It had the engine AND transmission fully rebuilt only 8,000 miles ago!  It has new tires, and a basically new, oversized top of the line generator.  Those three things alone are worth what we paid for this whole thing!  Since it was a steal, we were able to buy it without financing it, so it will make keeping the bank from breaking on the road all the more realistic.  (Thank you Bob Rathbone for your sound encouragement to do this without borrowing a larger sum of money for a newer coach.  We listened!)

We will be traveling through Phoenix, Vegas, Reno, Elko, Idaho, Southern Oregon, 93_bounder_interiorextensively through California, and then on back to Phoenix by Thanksgiving.  From there, well, its kinda an open book, so we’ll see where we end up.  Stay tuned to this blog for updates.  We are excited to finally be ready to roll, and just wanted to thank everyone who has been supporting us, praying for us, and encouraging us on our adventure.  We look forward to meeting new people on the road, and staying in touch with all of our friends here at home, wherever YOUR home happens to be!  We’ll add more details later, and lots more photos as we make this thing "ours", but for now, here are a few details and a quick "before" interior shot!

1993 Fleetwood Bounder 34′ long Class A (Bus style)
454 Gas engine, new engine and transmission rebuild 8k miles ago
6 new tires
only 185 hours on the 7000w generator
new carpet on interior
Queen bed in back, sleeper sofa and dinette in front for kids
full kitchen w/ Gas stove, oven, fridge, freezer
and of course… running 2 mac books and a mac mini on a cellular wifi network! (ok… we added those)
TOTAL PRICE – w tax, title, license, etc… $8300!!

Blessings, and let the Share5 Tour begin! 

Sharing well with others,

Chad & Amy

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Two updates!

1.  After posting my last entry from the Catalyst Conference in Atlanta, my mystery quotee fired me an email!  She (my friend Sharon Burcham) corrected the quote as follows, and it makes my point even better than I had remembered it with her paraphrase below.  Thanks Sharon!

"He has the whole filmstrip of my life in his view and not the snapshot of my present situation" .  Paraphrase….He has the camcorder and we have the polaroid!"

2.  The house is now a DONE DEAL!  Our property manager signed a lease for the house this morning, and we have 10 days to have it ready for our new tenants.  They seem to be great renters on paper, and we hope they are blessed with the house as we are on the road!

So there it is… 10 days and the house will no longer be a consideration in the budget.  We will now rachet up the search for the RV, and will spend this week moving our stuff to its temporary place at my mom’s house.

Thats it… KID TIME!  Here comes DADDY!!!!

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